Longwoods eLetter July 24, 2007

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1. Many doctors who make mistakes – and even those who come close – suffer stress, sleep problems and loss of confidence (PDF).
2. Random workplace drug testing is intrusive and an unreasonable exercise of management rights an arbitrator ruled on June 28 (PDF).
3. Unions have a real knack for getting the public’s attention. Here’s their secret strategy.(PDF)
4. What are Repetitive Strain Injuries? – everything you want to know.. More here (PDF).
5. And, in case you missed it: There are nearly 50 million Americans without health insurance.
6. Wynton Marsalis will be the keynote speaker at the OHAHealthAchieve plenary session on Tuesday, November 5, 2007. Mr. Marsalis is a jazz musician, trumpeter, composer, bandleader, advocate for the arts, and educator; and was recently named one of America’s Best Leaders by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
7. Major Trauma in Pregnant Women During the Summer.  Download PDF
8. U.S. Health Experts Discuss Ways to Achieve Universal Health Coverage.

FROM OUR ACADEMIC HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRES
• Vancouver Coastal Health. Profession-Specific and Interprofessional Advisory Councils (PDF)
• Calgary Health Region. 2006 – 2009 Health Plan (PDF)
• Capital Health Edmonton. All about NetCare (PDF)
• St. Boniface. National Centre for Agri-Food Research in Medicine. Annual Report 2005 (PDF)
• Toronto academic health sciences network. Pandemic Planning Guidelines (PDF)
• Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation Strategic Directions 2006-2009 (PDF)

NOTE: Typically this kind of search will not include the most recent publications which readers are still discovering. In ten years of publishing we have recognized (and this list demonstrates) that much of this body of work continues to be read and referenced by policy makers, authors, healthcare providers and pundits alike.

1. Use of Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care, 1995-1999. RS Hooker, LF McCaig .
   Federal policies and state legislation in the United States encourage  the use of physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) in primary  care, although the nature of their work has not been fully analyzed. This ...
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2. Triage Through Technology: New Brunswick Tele-Care Service Reduces ER Visits. P O'Hanley.
   It is 2:10 AM A 23 year-old, neatly-groomed man arrives in your hospital ER. It is his third visit this year. He speaks to the triage nurse, greeting her by name. He explains he has come "to see the doctor about this cough."
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3. ICES Report: Is There A Doctor in The Emergency Department? Ben Chan
   One reason fewer physicians are practicing emergency medicine is because the ED is an increasingly taxing work environment. Although the per capita use of EDs has declined by 10% in the past seven years, this decline was attributable ...
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4. Emergency Department Patient Satisfaction Survey in Alberta's Capital Health Region, Robert McKim, Sharon Warren, Carmel Montgomery, Joanne Zaborowski, Colleen McKee, Donna Towers and Brian H. Rowe
   In 2005, a large Canadian health region conducted an emergency department patient feedback survey to obtain information on patient perceptions of satisfaction with emergency services received. The Capital Health region ...
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5. The HIT Report from KLAS: Emergency Department Systems Study; FOCUS: Eight ED Vendor Products …
   Emergency Department (ED) Systems appear to be a system whose "time has come." Aided by recent advancements in technology and application software, ED automation is demonstrating solid benefits with proven Return on ...
   Web Search
6. A Sabbatical Journey of Discovery: The Liberation of Nursing. Mary Ferguson-Paré
   This is the first in a series of reports to share key learnings from my sabbatical. In the spring and summer of this year I took a three-month journey through Scandinavia, Europe, Ireland and the United Kingdom to ...
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7. Missed Opportunity: Patients Who Leave Emergency Departments without Being Seen. Akerke Baibergenova, Kira Leeb, Aleksandra Jokovic, Sharon Gushue
   The rate of patients who visit emergency departments (EDs) but leave before being evaluated and treated is an important indicator of ED performance. This study examines patient- and hospital-level characteristics that may ...
   Related Articles - Web Search

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Seeking Nominees for Innovation in Clinical Practice Team Award
The Innovation in Clinical Practice Team Award recognizes excellence in clinical practice among Ontario’s health care professionals. Visit www.ohahealthachieve.com or email sjacobs@oha.com. The deadline for submissions is July 19, 2007.

A photo review of HealthAchieve 2006 (PDF): see what you can experience in 2007.

Healthcare Quarterly
CIHI Survey: Priority Areas for Wait Time Reduction: What We Know and What We Don't Know
Tracy Johnson, Kathleen Morris and Jennifer Zelmer

HealthcarePapers
Guaranteeing Accountability for Quality Care
Penny Ballem

Nursing Leadership
Infoway's EHR User Engagement Strategy
Lynn M. Nagle

Healthcare Policy
Medicare Financing and Redistribution in British Columbia, 1992 and 2002
Kimberlyn McGrail

Electronic Healthcare
Annual Review of IM/IT in Healthcare
Michael Guerriere

World Health and Population
Determinants of Antenatal Morbidity: A Multivariate Analysis
Rafiqul Islam Chowdhury, M. Ataharul Islam, Nitai Chakraborty, Halida Hanum Akhter

Today’s featured Podcast:

Kafka, New Orleans, the OARs and the KT Boundary
Robert G. Evans

Reverse the flow of Kafka's fable of the Imperial Message and you have the problem of Knowledge Transfer - the message is not getting through.
Listen. Read the article here.

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This is great opportunity to effectively transfer knowledge using storytelling, compelling lectures or gripping interviews – using simple digital recordings that we distribute on the web. Formatted for iPod listeners too. For criteria and specifications please contact Rebecca Hart at RHart@longwoods.com. All subject to editorial review and acceptance of course.

Need to Ask an Expert?
A feature presented by Longwoods Publishing in collaboration with a pool of leading experts in the design and management of healthcare organizations.

Question: What are the key ingredients of a high-quality work environment in Canada's health care sector and how can this goal be achieved?

Response: Health human resources have emerged as a top priority for research and action. This paper echoes calls for a fundamentally new approach to the people side of the health care system - treating employees as assets that need to be nurtured rather than costs that need to be controlled.  … click here

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Our most recent Breakfast with the Chiefs: One hundred and fifty Chiefs and aspiring chiefs heard Matt Anderson as interviewer in the second of a series of discussions with Richard Alvarez. We heard about IT’s last frontier – healthcare; Infoway’s new strategic plan – soon to be out; Infoway’s criteria for future spending; consumerism – coming on like a tsunami; the committed role of employers and patient portals; Google’s drive to serving the health sector – as only Google can; regional EMRs; Infoway’s strategy for better uptake by physicians and the importance of demonstrations of technology that works. Stay tuned – the next interviews will be in Montreal and one of Alberta’s academic health sciences centres.

August 16-17, 2007: Vancouver, BC. Operations Research In Health Care. This conference brings together leading experts in the field of health care Operations Research (OR) from across Canada and the USA, as well as researchers just starting their careers in this important field. There will be a wide variety of exciting presentations, reflecting the diversity of health care OR and the potential benefits of OR analyses.  Operating On Health Care is about building bridges between operations researchers, health care managers, practitioners, and policy makers. For details click here.

August 26-29, 2007: Winnipeg, MB. Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) 2007 National Conference. The changes in the global marketplace and the explosion of network-driven decision-making are transforming the public service at a pace never before experienced. New demands and innovations continue to affect public administration. This year’s national IPAC conference will help us manage today’s demands while we prepare for tomorrow. For details click here.

September 13 - 14, 2007: Edmonton, AB, Leaders in Rehabilitation: The Perfect Storm. In partnership, Capital Health, Calgary Health Region and the University of Alberta – Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, are pleased to announce the 3rd annual Leaders in Rehabilitation Conference. Join us for an in-depth look at workforce sustainability, knowledge transfer, and consumer integration in decision making as it relates to the future face of healthcare in rehabilitation. This forum will bring together rehabilitation leaders from across all disciplines. For details click here.

October 15, 2007: Richmond Hill, ON. Supportive Housing: The Winning Formula for Supporting People and Sustaining the Health Care System. Presented by the Canadian Research Network for Care in the Community (CRNCC) and the Ontario Community Support Association (OCSA), this symposium focuses on the crucial role that supportive housing plays in maintaining the health, well-being, independence and quality of life of individuals. For details click here.

October 19, 2007: Toronto, ON. Enhancing Cognition in Older Adults: Connecting Research and Clinical Care. Get updated on recent advances in cognitive difficulties faced by older adults, as well as pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic approaches to treatment. The conference includes morning lectures led by internationally recognized leaders in cognitive and neural aging, and afternoon workshops led by scientists and scientist-clinicians focusing on specific issues related to cognitive rehabilitation of older adults. For details click here.

October 24, 2007: London, ON. LHSC Patient Safety Conference. The conference will be of interest to administrative leaders, professional practice leaders, frontline staff and physicians. Objectives include enhancing awareness of national strategies; learning about Patient WalkRoundsTM as a strategy to advance culture change; gaining insight from the family’s perspective; and championing safe patient care for every patient every day. For more information please email heni.dykstra@lhsc.on.ca.

For our complete list of conferences and events go here.

Ontario Hospital Association conferences www.OHA.com/conferences

Registered Nurses Association of Ontario conferences click here.

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Brad McKay to Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare Food Services
Robert Chambers to Chair of Thunder Bay’s (ON) St. Joseph’s Care Group
Tim Gerke to interim CEO, Deep River and District Hospital (ON)
Dr. Salim Yusuf to Hamilton (ON) Health Sciences as Vice President of Research

[Don’t forget; we don’t make these up. Please send your promotions, appointments, retirements and other transitions to publisher@longwoods.com] 

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Manager, Short-Term Response - MOHLTC, Toronto, ON
Director of Client Services - Mississauga Halton CCAC
Chief Executive Officer - Central East LHIN
Consultants - Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Toronto, ON
General Duty Nurse - Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services, Thorold, ON
Chief Programs Officer - OACCAC, Toronto, ON
Vice-President, Medical Affairs-  Central Health Region of Newfoundland & Labrador
Epidemiology and Decision Support Consultant - North West LHIN, Thunder Bay, ON
Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) Manager - Edmonton AB
Unit Manager, Cardiac Cath Lab/DIRR & Outpatient Cardiology Clinics - Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, AB
Unit Manager, Cardiac Sciences, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, AB
Student Nurse Burseries - Northwest Territories Health and Social Services
Career Opportunities at Courtyard Group
Career Opportunities at Northern Lights Health Region
Career Opportunities in the Northwest Territories
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